Cakes to Dream On - anyone?

by Biscuit in reply to Anonymous [original][2] on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 19:13

Okay, never mind. I called ANOTHER city library (many of the cities in my area have their own city-maintained-operated libraries), and they have it! Ha! I'm going to pick it up.

Thanks everyone.

BTW - re: city libraries. In my area, I swear, our public library systems S U C K S. Seriously, seriously s u c k s. I hate the public, county library. Not only are they rude and unhelpful, but they never have anything that we want or ask for, or rarely. It's really odd. You'd think they'd have SOME things. And when you put things on hold, they come in, and no one ever calls you to tell you that it's there - it just sits on the hold shelf for a week, and if you don't come in and get it (I guess you are supposed to know it's there by the psychic vibes it sends out...), they put it back in circulation. They say there are too many books on hold to actually notify people when they are in - you need to keep checking back with them. (thbbtt! I say). Videos are for 3 days only, and you get charged $1 per day over that. I may as well go to Blockbuster; at least they don't charge late fees anymore.

Anyway - several of the suburbs around here have private, city-run & paid-for libraries. And they are FANTASTIC!!!! You can get a card there even if you live in another city (my city has a crappy little county branch), and they have EVERYTHING! And if they don't have it, they get it. And if you accidentally drop books in their box that belong to another library, they send them to that other library. And they are friendly, and helpful, and lovely and wonderful and have amazing children sections! You know - they run like REAL libraries are supposed to run! And it's odd - they aren't county, they are city, and yet they have so many more resources and updated computer systems and everything. It's wonderful.

Can you tell I hate our Country Library system??? I really do. They are sad and pathetic, and I really wish our city had their own library instead of a country branch. I never go to our library, they frustrate me, and I always go to one of the two neihboring towns instead.

So - since the county SYSTEM - THE ENTIRE FRIKKING COUNTY! - didn't have one SINGLE book by Colette Peters, much less the one I wanted, I went to both private libraries and they had the books but the one I wanted was out. So I tried a third, and they had it and are holding it! Yay!

Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception. - Mark Twain

Edited 7/18/2008 3:14 pm ET by Biscuit

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